Flowers in the sun

Big field of green.... Sweden in summer

Flowers everywhere. Soft and fresh.

Everywhere.

A veterinary. I liked the statue outside of a Cocker Spaniel. This is where I used to take my cat. It is almost neighbour with the hotel I live in.

Ye old company

Just a couple of pictures from Sony Ericsson, pride of Lund. This is the new building.

Here are the meatballs I had for lunch at the public restaurant in the new Sony Ericsson building. Nice, big and juicy....yummmm

Picture of interior of the new building, taken from the entrance at the reception. Very very interesting and dynamic architecture.

The old building is not so bad neither. I really like the edges and the round middle part.

Swedish nature and stuff

I happen to be in Lund this week, on business trip. It is pretty crappy weather even for Swedish summer. But despite that, there is so much beauty that I had forgotten about. Here is the view from my hotel room.

OK, not a swedish nature picture, but i took it in the sun.

More green. This one I took 5.30 in the morning. You can see a couple of hares if you zoom in. The hare closest to me ran away real quick.

More early morning pictures. I couldn't sleep so I took a walk around.

Birds singing, the grass smell, everything was nice.

Leftovers

Here I am buying takoyaki at Kyoto station 8F or something

...And me posing in front of golden pavilion.

Where are the geishas?

So, we checked in at the ryokan, and asked the nice lady there "Where are these geishas and maikos that everyone talks about all the time?" and she told us exactly on which street we could find them. Also we learned that maikos and geishas could be distinguished by which lip they paint. Seriously. I think beginner maikos only paint their lower lip no pun intended. And the fully trained ones paint both lips red.

So we went out and started looking for that street. As you can see, the streets were pretty empty around that time.

Only people we could see were a couple of young girls with severe iron deficiency judging by their extremely pale faces.

So I asked them where that road is which the ryokan lady told us about. They had no idea.

Kyomizudera

Say cheese! I think while Martin was taking this one, he caught the attention of the couple of boys posing for their school trip photo.

We met some youngsters (I am not old. They were just younger than me.) who offered us free guide as long as they got to practice their English (By reading from a piece of paper) here they are posing with me.

If you look real carefully you can see me in the crowd. The blue dot.

Very beautiful this temple. Majestically rising above the tall trees. We could see it all the way from our ryokan balcony.

Inari Martin

The Inari gates were everywhere, and to actually walk them would take some serious effort, and time.

We just walked maybe around 1 km and called it quits, cause it started to look pretty much the same, once you saw the first couple of hundred meters.

I tried real hard to get this picture right, but failed. Martin caught it at a nice angle.

You are here. And as you can see the red tori roads lead pretty much everywhere in the nearby hills. This place is huge... I think at the bottom it says how long it takes to hike to different spots. 2 hours.. no way!